Information Literacy Education LBS 707

BACKGROUND: Class Politics 332 Lecturer Prof: C. Africa Number of Students 45 Date 20 September 2017 Time 11:30 – 12:30 Frame Scholarship as a Conversation ASSIGNMENT 1: Conduct a review of the literature on democracy, with a particular focus on the South African context. I am Economic and Management Sciences Faculty Librarian at the University of the Western Cape and I have been requested by a Lecturer from Political Science Studies to conduct training with Politics 332 students. I had 2 sessions with the students, the first session covered the following:   Identify information need Evaluate databases and other information resources Set up search strategies and use various search techniques Formulate search strings based on your own research assignment Identify relevant material types Undertake critical evaluation of your sources Search more efficie...

Learning Theories What are learning theories? Learning Theories are research based models that provide insight on how people learn. Behaviourism - stimulus response Cognitivism - teacher centered learning outcomes Social learning - students learn from one another by observing and modelling from others Constructivism - interaction, reshaping or transform information to construct meaning and understanding e.g. role plays

 Scholarship as a Conversation 1) What do I understand by the concept "Scholarship as a Conversation" Scholarship as a Conversation refers to the idea of enquiring information within a community of scholars, researchers, or professionals, with new insights and discoveries occurring over time as a result of competing perspectives and interpretations. Communities of inquiry provide intellectual challenges and the environment for individuals to stretch their depth and breadth of thinking and learning through collaboration (Garrison, 2015: 54). 2) Examples where I practice this concept both in workplace and as a student I have joined social networking sites for researchers e.g. ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and SlideShare Seek out conversations taking place in the research area from twitter handles e.g. Writing For Research @ Write4Research, LIS Research @ LISResearch, etc. Conference presentation/poster session;  Scrutinise the authority to...

Threshold Concepts and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education What I have learnt about Threshold Concepts is that is a new platform or a passage to practice the understanding of being information literate and to understand the process to acquire information. Threshold concepts characteristics are: T ransformative - these concepts once learned by the learner open up new ways of understanding the world and questioning of former ways of thinking. I ntegrative - learners are able to integrate threshold concepts into other contexts and related areas. I rreversible - threshold concepts once learned are difficult to unlearn. B ounded - threshold concepts are contextual they are learned within a particular context and often along with and in addition to other threshold concepts. T roublesome - threshold concepts can be potentially be troublesome to the learner.

Class discussion on the Information Literacy Education   What is the difference between Bibliographic Instruction and Information Literacy? Bibliographic Instruction  Bibliographic Instruction has a long history in Academic Libraries dated back to 1880s (Hardesty, 1995: 340). Bibliographic Instruction is a historical term used for the library instruction, also called user education. Librarians or Teacher Librarians used to give instructional programs designed to teach library users how to locate the information they need quickly and effectively. This kind of instruction did not have the critical and cognitive thinking skills. Information Literacy  Information Literacy on the other side according to ACRL 2015, is the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learn...